Word: slendering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dazzling in the Florida sunshine, a slender white missile, 60-odd feet long, rested on its launching pad at the Cape Canaveral Missile Test Center one morning last week. At count down's end, fire flashed at its base, and the monster slowly rose into the air, a pencil of orange flame lengthening behind it. Straight up it rocketed, gathering speed. Several miles up in the bright blue sky, it arched gracefully into a southeastward course, dwindled to a speck and then, 2¼ minutes after rising from its pad, disappeared out over the Atlantic, hurtling on toward...
Jean Humphrey, 34, a slender, lively woman who once danced with the corps de ballet at Manhattan's famed Radio City Music Hall, opened up dancing classes at Worthington's Town Hall. George, 39, was a publisher, ran a little printing firm that turned out school yearbooks and similar publications. He liked to drive around in a $10,000 Continental Mark II, and was known to be a mite expansive about his moneymaking prowess; he also gave the impression that he was related to former U.S. Treasury Secretary George Humphrey. He had a little printing press...
...girl was a slender French blonde, and only 16. That summer of 1910, when the mornings were warm and clear, she would go down to the shores of Lake Annecy in the French Upper Savoy near Switzerland. With her was a bearded painter from Paris named Paul Chabas. At 8:30 a.m. she would slip out of her clothes and step into the chill water. The first time, she drew her body into an instinctive pose of protection against the cold. "Don't move!" cried the enchanted painter...
Shortly before World War II, the rumor spread that the frail blonde girl who had trembled for Chabas in the cold water of Lake Annecy was destitute and starving. Chabas stoutly denied it. "She is 41 now," he said at the time, "and, alas, she is no longer as slender as when she posed for me. She is happily married to a wealthy French industrialist and has three lovely children ... I think I succeeded in capturing her delicate charm. She was exactly like the picture...
...Slender, clean-cut Martin Daniels Jr., 16, had a problem, a pal and a plan. Marty's problem was his father. Martin Daniels Sr.. 35, a shiftless unemployed dockworker. Even in seedy, rough-and-tumble South Philadelphia, where the Daniels family lived in a three-room, $50-a-month apartment, Daniels Sr. was known as a hard-drinking no-good with a long record of arrests-burglary, assault and battery, stabbing, and slugging a cop. He was also rough on Marty, eldest of his six sons-a roughness that hardened into perpetual rage last fall, when...